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A Weird Present for Someone that has Everything

September 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Not sure what this says about the person that wears it but it is pretty strange.

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What do you call 3 1/2 pounds of mosquitoes?

August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

I would call them gross but in Taiwan apparently you will be calling Huang Yuyen the winner of a mosquitoes collecting contest?!?!  A  Taiwanese woman just might be the world’s top exterminator after catching three-and-a-half pounds worth of mosquitoes in a month.The Telegraph reports that Huang Yuyen from the Yunlin county in southern Taiwan easily beat out 72 other contestants in a contest organized by an insect trap-making company to see who could capture the most mosquitoes. The second-place winner’s haul was less than half of what Huang had.

Imbictus International, the company behind the contest, is requesting that Huang’s efforts be recognized by Guinness World Records.  I wonder if they were dead or alive?

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$69 Hot Dog Surprise

July 27th, 2010 · 6 Comments

most expensive hot dogWhat better to go with a $765 bottle of beer?  A $69 hot dog, the world most expensive tube o’ beef!  In the past restaurateur Stephen Bruce has already gotten folks to pony up $1,000 for an ice-cream sundae. So what’s a measly $69 for a hot dog?

Make that an “haute dog.” Bruce’s famous Serendipity 3 restaurant in New York City celebrated National Hot Dog Day June 23 by marrying a foot-long tube of meat with such decidedly nontraditional accoutrements as black truffles and foie gras, served on a pretzel roll grilled in white truffle butter.

The steep-priced sausage is rich food in more than one sense of the term: Serendipity 3 was seeking to set the Guinness world record for the world’s most expensive hot dog.

“It’s fun, I always want something bigger and better,” Bruce told the New York Daily News.

Since opening Serendipity 3 in 1954, Bruce has marched to a different drummer in the kitchen: For example, he’s the creator of now world-famous Frozen Hot Chocolate (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a huge fan).

And Bruce’s cunning culinary strategies for drawing attention to his restaurant have paid off: Lines at his Upper East Side location often snake all the way down the block.

The eatery had already entered Guinness World Records for making the world’s largest hot chocolate (four gallons) and, for its 50th anniversary, concocting the world’s most expensive sundae (complete with an edible 23-karat gold leaf). But to take one of the humblest of traditional American foods, which can be purchased for a single dollar at street carts throughout the Big Apple, and sell it for a sum that induces sticker shock took some doing — even for Bruce.

The meat itself wasn’t enough to do it: It’s pure beef, but it’s readily obtainable on Serendipity’s standard foot-long, which normally sells for $8.50. It required duck liver, truffle butter, truffle mustard and heirloom tomato ketchup to make a customer feel like they were getting their money’s worth for the exorbitant price.

Bruce himself personally sized up the perfect person to be the first to sample his extra-expensive entree: Trudy Tant, an unsuspecting tourist from South Carolina visiting New York with her mother and daughter, tried to enter Serendipity 3, only to find the restaurant was closed for a press conference about the new hot dog.

When she turned around and walked back out, “this man came running out after us and said he heard we were inside a minute ago, and would we try their special hot dog,” Tant told the Rock Hill (S.C.) Herald. The man in question, of course, was Bruce.

“We weren’t even hungry; we just went to Starbucks before that,” Tant said. But she was up for an adventure and tucked into Bruce’s creation. After two bites, she commented: “It was good; gourmet taste.”

But then came the hard part: In order for Serendipity 3 to be entered into Guinness World Records, Tant actually had to pay for the mega-priced meal. As she swiped her credit card, her daughter Maia texted her dad about mom’s purchase.

Down in South Carolina, Leonard Tant got a little weak in the knees about the news. “I knew she was going to spend some money in New York — but $69 for a hot dog,” he told the Herald later. “I was thinking a purse, some shoes. A hot dog?”

Still, Tant’s purchase did the trick — the deluxe dog will now appear in the next edition of Guinness World Records, along with her name. And for being such a good sport, Bruce treated her and her family to a full meal on the house.

Afterward, Maia told the Herald that the restaurant certainly lived up to its name.  “It was serendipitous for us to go there at that time, that day,” she said.

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$765 Bottle of Beer and that is not the Strange Part!

July 23rd, 2010 · 5 Comments

You think a bottle of beer for $765 is weird?  Wait till you see how it is packaged!!

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According to Scottish firm BrewDog, “The End of History” is the “strongest (55% alcohol), most expensive and most shocking beer in the world.”

Just 12 bottles were made and the company has already sold out. They will be shipped out to buyers in the United States, Canada, Italy, Denmark, Scotland and England next week.

The dead animals which were used to create the beers’ unusual appearance were four squirrels, seven weasels and a hare. All were roadkill, James Watt, co-founder of BrewDog, said defensively.

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Crazy Must-Have Luggage Stickers

July 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments

These luggage stickers would really be a lot of fun but I wonder if they insure you against getting shot and killed?

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Wonder Woman Then and Now

July 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I don’t know what all the uproar is, especially from feminists.  I think Wonder Woman’s new looks is pretty cool, my only advice is to lose the black lipstick.

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Two (2) Year Old Chain Smoker

July 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Insane!  His parents should be in jail for allowing this!

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Is the Canadian Two Dollar Bill Coming Back?

July 6th, 2010 · 6 Comments

I would like to see this one go into circulation!

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Crazy Prisoner Dines on Cellmates Fried Lung

June 23rd, 2010 · 9 Comments

Warning, this story is totally crazy and sick!  This guy should be locked up like Hannibal Lector.

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France’s “Hannibal Lecter” said Wednesday a sexual urge drove him to kill his cellmate and “curiosity” about the taste of human flesh led him to cook and eat a lung he ripped out of the corpse.  He said he flew into an “uncontrollable” rage after his victim gave him a “dirty look” on January 2, 2007 after he ordered him to wash his hands after using the toilet in the tiny cell they shared with a third inmate in Rouen.

He said that after pummelling his victim, he took a pair of scissors and plunged it into his back, neck and chest a dozen times before holding a plastic bag over his head “for five minutes” to make sure he was dead. Then he decided to eat Baudry’s heart for his evening meal. “I take a razor blade and I open his chest. I plunge my hand in and I take out what I think is the heart but which in fact is a piece of lung, which I put into a Tupperware container,” he told a transfixed courtroom. “I did it out of curiosity to see what it was like to eat human flesh,” said Cocaign.

“What is terrible is that it (the lung) was good,” Cocaign told him, according to his testimony. “It has the taste of venison. It is tender. What I did I liked doing.”  “No one was listening to me,” the detainee said. “I took action, and then they took me seriously.”

Totally crazy and a nut-case!  This guy needs to be put in solidarity confinement for the rest of his life.

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Weird News Headlines

June 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

- A dating website has launched a “virtual sperm bank” meant to help users maximize their chances of having attractive children. BeautifulPeople.com is a site that promotes itself as having “a strict ban on ugly people.” Whatever happened to ‘beauty is in the eye-of-the-beholder?

-  Police in Tennessee are still deciding if they should charge a man after rescuers searched for him for three hours because he was thought to have drowned, only to find out later he had been watching rescue efforts from a bar.  The guy must be a total moron!

- An 18-year-old Indonesian man says he was seduced by a cow, and that’s why he was having sex with it. A neighbour caught Gusti Ngurah Alit allegedly wooing the farm animal on Sunday, the village chief on the resort island of Bali said, the Times newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa reported Friday.  Well maybe the cow was beautiful?

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